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April 3, 2012
Brian Johnson, Pride Fest Bible hander-outer, files federal lawsuit over "no pride zone" policy [UPDATE]
A dispute that has been ongoing for years recently escalated: Notorious Bible hander-outer Brian Johnson filed a federal lawsuit against the Minneapolis Park Board, alleging that his constitutional rights are violated by the Twin Cities Pride Festival's "no pride zone" policy. That policy, endorsed ... More >>
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February 8, 2012
Rick Santorum glitterbombed in Blaine [VIDEO]
The streets of Minnesota are running rainbow with glitter! In the waning hours before Tuesday night's caucus, the glitterati struck one last time at a Rick Santorum event in Blaine, showering the famously anti-gay former senator in sparkles. "I think he just felt the rainbow," glitterbomb inve ... More >>
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February 3, 2012
MNGOP leadership throws support behind Romney
Minnesota's Republican vanguard is throwing its weight behind Mitt Romney's bid to be the 2012 Republican presidential nominee.Later today, House Speaker Kurt Zellers and House Majority Leader Matt Dean will reportedly headline a list of Romney's legislative backers. Last week's polling indicates ... More >>
Blogs
January 30, 2012
Luverne Pizza Ranch hosts Santorum tonight
Santorum coming out of his jacketRick Santorum is coming to Minnesota tonight, which makes him the first presidential candidate to campaign in the state this year. Santorum's visit follows Ron Paul's recent television push in the state, as Paul has begun airing campaign ads for the Minnesota ... More >>
Blogs
January 6, 2012
Was Michele Bachmann treated differently because she's batshit crazy? [VIDEO]
Was Michele Bachmann treated differently from other candidates because she's batshit crazy? That's the provocative question asked in a video by The Onion today.Michele Bachmann was the only woman in the race for the GOP presidential nomination, as well as the only lunatic, which has led some to q ... More >>
Blogs
November 3, 2011
Vikings stadium won't get a special session
This stadium will have to wait until the legislature's New Year's hangover wears off.The Minnesota Vikings are, putting it kindly, not a very special football team right now. Fittingly, the team won't get a special session from the legislature to rule on its new stadium(s?), and will have to wait ... More >>
Blogs
October 4, 2011
Michele Bachmann's five most regrettable expenses
Michele Bachmann's campaign is fading fast. If you squint, it disappears completely.That's partly because Bachmann's poll numbers have moved from the basement to the underground bunker. And it doesn't help that her staffers are beginning to pack up and move away for greener, saner pastures. But, ... More >>
Blogs
September 13, 2011
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says he'll release Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, magnanimous bastard, says he'll release the two Americans.Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the slithering president of Iran, has made a promise to America -- and one of its most devoted mothers.Ahmaedinejad told the Washington Post he'll release Minnesota native Shane Bauer and Josh Fatt ... More >>
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July 6, 2011
Bachmann warns Obama to fear the Tea Party, who are not all toothless hillbillies
Michele, prepared to lead her red, white and blue hillbillies into battle.Michele Bachmann has issued a warning to Barack Obama and the Democrats that they should "be afraid of the Tea Party."Bachmann, the self-anointed queen of the Tea Party, said the Democrats have the wrong idea about the grou ... More >>
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June 17, 2011
Bachmann surges into second place
Michele Bachmann left Tim Pawlenty in the dust in the wake of the New Hampshire Republican debate on Monday, not among Republicans in the Granite State, but also nationally, if you believe the polls. She's vaulted into second place behind Mitt Romney in both cases.
Blogs
June 7, 2011
Wisconsin Republicans' fake Democrats exposed
Gov. Scott Walker's allies get caught in a dirty trick.A number of Wisconsin Republicans are still trying to figure out how to survive the PR debacle birthed by their public employee union busting legislation earlier this year. One of the upshots is a series of recall drives being launched agains ... More >>
Blogs
June 3, 2011
Tim Pawlenty and Michele Bachmann will debate in New Hampshire
So friendly looking.Will he call her a "pain in the ass" and threaten to "rip her lungs out" in person? Will she remember to look into the right camera and get her Revolutionary War history straight? Those questions and more may be answered when Michele Bachmann and Tim Pawlenty show up fo ... More >>
Blogs
May 17, 2011
Limbaugh defends Bachmann from right wing media attack
Made for each other.It's one thing for the mainstream media, or an alt weekly like City Pages, to call out Michele Bachmann for hypocrisy and political hackery. But it's another matter entirely when a conservative news website turns on one of its own and does the same thing. That's why we r ... More >>
Blogs
April 23, 2011
Most Wisconsin voters don't believe Gov. Scott Walker's union talk
Walker's even lost the zombie vote.He's a hero to tea partiers, but Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker keeps getting bad news from statewide polls. The latest survey finds that just 31 percent of folks in Wisconsin have apparently bought into his line that he wants to strip public employees of thei ... More >>
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April 22, 2011
Katherine Windels ordered to stop threatening Wisconsin Republicans
Katherine Windels got carried away.There's no doubt that pro- and anti-union forces used almost every trick in the book during the assembly battle over Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's bill to strip public employees of their collective bargaining rights. But while there was a lot of shouting, scre ... More >>
Blogs
April 12, 2011
Kathy Nickolaus refuses to resign over Wisconsin election screw up
Kathy Nickolaus admits she screwed up, but says she won't resign.Waukesha County Clerk Kathy Nickolaus appears to have been exposed as either a ham-fisted political hack, or simply incompetent. Or maybe it's both. But just because she flipped a much-watched Wisconsin Supreme Court election i ... More >>
Blogs
March 7, 2011
Scott Walker tanking in another Wisconsin poll [UPDATE]
Scott Walker is falling in the polls.There's more bad poll news for Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, who insists he's going to stand firm in his budget battle to strip public employees of their collective bargaining rights. Rasmussen Reports is out with a new survey of Wisconsin voters showing that ... More >>
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March 7, 2011
Scott Walker called to the border by 14 Wisconsin Democrats [UPDATE]
Mark RiechersIt's not dead yet.Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker has been invited to the Illinois state line for a face-to-face meeting with some of the 14 Democratic state senators who won't give Republicans the quorum needed to pass their union-busting bill. A showdown now that Walker's tanking in t ... More >>
Blogs
March 3, 2011
Pawlenty will run for president or get off the pot in two weeks [UPDATE]
It's make-your-mind-up time.Tim Pawlenty says he will decide once and for all in the next two or three weeks whether he'll make a 2012 run for the White House. After three epic campaign commercials, a national book tour, frequent-flyer excursions to New Hampshire and Iowa, and incessant sucking ... More >>
Blogs
March 1, 2011
Wisconsin senate Democrats getting homesick, Republican says
Sen. Scott Fitzgerald says some of the 14 Democrats want to come home.As long as 14 Wisconsin Senate Democrats stay on the lam, GOP Gov. Scott Walker can't push his controversial union busting bill through the Legislature. So he threatened again today to start laying off 1,500 public sector ... More >>
Blogs
February 17, 2011
Surly asks fans for help changing laws
Surly asks for help to get dream brewery approvalWhen Surly Brewing Company announced plans for a new $20-million brewery complex last week the Twin Cities beer world exploded with excitement. This wasn't going to be just any brewery; this was going to be a "destination brewery" complete with ... More >>
Blogs
December 8, 2010
Tom Emmer concedes governor's race to Mark Dayton [UPDATE]
Tom Emmer says it's time to move on.Given the steady drip, drip, drip of his failed ballot challenges and dead-end legal maneuvers since Election Day, it almost seems anticlimactic that Republican Tom Emmer has finally concluded that his race for governor is lost. A lot of GOP insiders, and ... More >>
News
December 1, 2010
Fair-y Tales
Tom Emmer says it's time to move on.Given the steady drip, drip, drip of his failed ballot challenges and dead-end legal maneuvers since Election Day, it almost seems anticlimactic that Republican Tom Emmer has finally concluded that his race for governor is lost. A lot of GOP insiders, and ... More >>
Blogs
November 10, 2010
Did Fox News just call Tim Pawlenty a wimp?
Fox News thinks Tim Pawlenty is small fry.Fox News news is up with a feature called "12 in 2012," a kind of working list made up of potential Republican challengers to President Barack Obama in the next general election. The good news for Tim Pawlenty is that he made the list. The bad news i ... More >>
Blogs
November 2, 2010
Keith Ellison rolling to re-election
Ellison swept his opponents off the mapWith 95 percent of the precincts reporting, looks like Keith Ellison has won a second term to Congress. The numbers came in fast and decisive: Ellison, 68.5 percent, Joel Demos, 23.6 percent.This race had more than its fair share of bigoted overtones.
Blogs
October 13, 2010
Michael Steele set to embarrass MN GOP in secret
GOP.comMichael Steele is in the heezy.Michael Steele, the chairman of the National Republican Party famous for perpetually having a mouthful of his own foot, is rallying the faithful in Minneapolis this afternoon.The fund-raising lunch, being held at the Hilton at noon, is being hosted by the Ele ... More >>
News
August 25, 2010
Asylum Denied
Only a fraction of Mexicans get U.S. asylum
Blogs
July 22, 2010
Slug endorses Matt Entenza for governor
The Matt Entenza gubernatorial campaign has been full of WTF moments. Remember, this is the guy who picked a FOX 9 news anchor/jewelry entrepreneur to be his running mate. Then there was that false report that the Minnesota faction of the National Organization for Women endorsed Entenza over Marga ... More >>
Blogs
June 10, 2010
Jesse Ventura wants high schoolers force fed Hugo Chavez flick [Video]
Anti-Chavez news coverage in the U.S. is a conspiracy, Ventura saysOliver Stone and Jesse Ventura tag teamed for a smackdown against stunned Florida GOP congressman Connie Mack last night on last Larry King Live. The topic: "South of the Border," Stone's new documentary about Venezuelan leade ... More >>
News
June 3, 2010
Badlands
From Ground Zero of the Immigration Crisis Along the Mexican Border
Blogs
March 19, 2010
Al Franken's lightening up, Washington Post says; doggone it senators like him better
Fits of pique reinforced Franken's image as a champion of the liberal left, but now he plays squash with Republicans.
Blogs
January 14, 2010
Pawlenty keeps pitching right, headlines anti-abortion gala
The governor recently told Newsweek that it might be hard to be a presidential candidate in 2012 because nobody knows who he is.
Blogs
December 10, 2009
Bachmann on PolitiFact's 'Lie of the year' list for Hannity quote
The GOP congresswoman is a nominee for a reality-challenged rant on Sean Hannity's Fox News show.
Blogs
August 4, 2009
Ellison in Sudan to discuss relief effort and peace plans
Rep. Keith Ellison will be in Sudan this week meeting with officials to discuss the ongoing humanitarian situation in Darfur and plans for the implementation of a peace agreement.
Blogs
March 3, 2009
Klobuchar asks UN to help free U.S. journalist in Iran
Roxana Saberi grew up in Fargo and graduated from Concordia College in Moorhead. She hasn't been heard from since Feb. 10 when she called her father in Fargo to tell him she was detained in Iran.
Blogs
November 13, 2008
Slow Food Nation's new blog
Roxana Saberi grew up in Fargo and graduated from Concordia College in Moorhead. She hasn't been heard from since Feb. 10 when she called her father in Fargo to tell him she was detained in Iran.
Blogs
July 29, 2008
Guthrie's Government Inspector: worth bribing someone to get in
Roxana Saberi grew up in Fargo and graduated from Concordia College in Moorhead. She hasn't been heard from since Feb. 10 when she called her father in Fargo to tell him she was detained in Iran.
News
June 11, 2008
Pawlenty flip-flops on Cuba just in time to cozy up to McCain
Is Gov. Tim Pawlenty's change of heart politically motivated?
Blogs
July 11, 2005
Iraq: Secret UK memo says US weighing troop drawdown
Is Gov. Tim Pawlenty's change of heart politically motivated?
Blogs
June 14, 2005
6/14: Morning Communique
Is Gov. Tim Pawlenty's change of heart politically motivated?
Books
April 17, 2002
Before the Campus Burned
On the eve of the U of M's hockey championship, Castro came calling
Books
December 23, 1998
Heading South
On the eve of the U of M's hockey championship, Castro came calling
Movies
December 16, 1998
Drawn Out
On the eve of the U of M's hockey championship, Castro came calling
Books
December 10, 1997
Rumer Godden: Cromartie V. The God Shiva Acting Through The Government of India
On the eve of the U of M's hockey championship, Castro came calling
Feature
March 12, 1997
The Israel Exception
On the eve of the U of M's hockey championship, Castro came calling
News
November 6, 1996
October Surprises
On the eve of the U of M's hockey championship, Castro came calling
Feature
October 16, 1996
Foreign Affairs
Bill Clinton's Indonesian connection brought him campaign cash in exchange for influence--and continued inaction on the country's notorious human rights abuses.
News
June 26, 1996
Atun Alba:
Cocaine, Tuna, and Free Trade
Feature
November 29, 1995
Naftashock
The Giant Sucking Sound Revisited
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